The Workshop That Made Them
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Deep in the medieval Vatican, one pope turned holy relics into a lucrative scam — selling the exact same "sacred" bone fragments to churches across Europe dozens of times over. This is the story of how a pontiff exploited the relic craze that gripped Christendom, convincing bishops, nobles, and entire kingdoms that they owned a piece of Saint Peter or a splinter of the True Cross, when in reality they'd all been sold identical fakes from the same source. Perfect for anyone fascinated by medieval
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